Dinner at Rosaline LA was great, but you can't please everybody
This post is more than just a restaurant review. It's also about how a restaurant can try really hard and still make a customer frustrated. First the review ... My wife and I loved our dinner at Rosaline ! We ended up there in sort of a happenstance way. I serve on the board of an anti-hunger advocacy organization - Mazon . We have a board meeting in Los Angeles every year. My wife comes along, and we usually make a short vacation of it, a brief respite from the cold and snow in Minnesota in February. We made reservations in advance at several restaurants, either favorites from past visits or new ones that we wanted to try. When we got a phone call from one of those restaurants, seeking to confirm our plans, we discovered that there would be a private party in the main dining room. We would get a table in the bar. That didn't sound too good to us. We liked the ambiance of the main dining room, and we didn't particularly like the ambiance in the bar. So we cancelled that...